
Kazuo "Gaira" Komizu's sexually charged, delirious, and extremely low budget movie, has two men and two women trapped in an elevator, indulging in their growing psychotic fantasies about what they would do to each other.
Directed by Kazuo Komizu, Black Out Tokyo Elevator Panic leans on a strong ensemble — Rumi Mochizuki, Eri Kimura, Takeshi Itō — to carry a story that balances spectacle with character.
The film landed with audiences for its craft and performances, and remains one of the most talked-about drama titles of 1993.
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Kyôko, a traumatized young Japanese girl, finds herself struggling with her self-confidence in her adult life. Growing up in a family without her mother and her sister, she constantly questions the rationale of sex and the notion of liberty in modern Japanese society.
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